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The Chippewa
Valley Museum, (CVM), a regional history museum located in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, will host a Museum Conference and Teacher Institute October
1-3, 2005. Interested community members are also welcome to register.
A limited number of scholarships are available to assist with registration
or travel costs. For more information about the conference and registration
materials, or to request assistance, please contact Melissa Holmen
at (715) 834-7871 or via email at mholmen@cvmuseum.com.
You can download
a conference flyer and registration form here.
(92K file size. Will open in a new window. Close that window to
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and form.)
The conference
will center around the content and themes of CVM’s newest exhibit,
Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and their
Neighbors. The 5,000 square-foot exhibit tells a story of profound
change for Chippewa Valley farm families and their neighbors throughout
the 20th century.
Roundtables
will address topics and issues useful to both museum professionals
and classroom educators.
The conference
will also offer discussion and networking opportunities, off-site
activities, and keynote addresses.
The CVM Conference
is presented in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire History
Department, and in conjunction with the Wisconsin
Federation of Museums (WFM) Annual Meeting.
All attendees
will participate in "Reading the Farm" roundtables that
address themes in rural history. Principal speakers include historians
Mary Neth, David Danbom, and Robert Gough. Media historian Lary
May, folklorists James Leary and Ruth Olson of the UW-Madison
Folklore Program, and writer John Hildebrand, author of A
Northern Front, will also present.
The keynote
speaker on Saturday, October 1 will be writer Michael
Perry, author of Population
485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time.
The keynote
address on Sunday, October 2 will feature museum education specialist
Marcia Wolter Britton, now executive director of the Wyoming
Council for the Humanities.
Roundtables
on October 2 will emphasize interpreting, caring for and conserving
agricultural collections. CVM will also introduce Farm Life
materials for use by other museums, schools and institutions, including
curriculum-based tours, publications, a traveling panel exhibit,
and an on-line exhibit "workbook" for developing exhibits
about rural history and culture.
Roundtables
on October 3 are part of the Wisconsin
Federation of Museums (WFM) Annual Meeting and Conference and
will focus on a variety of museum issues. The Annual WFM lunch will
feature a keynote address by CVM director Susan McLeod.
Major support
for Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their
Neighbors came from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Wisconsin Humanities Council is also supporting the Museum Conference
and Teacher Institute.
Want to know
more about the Farm Life exhibit? Click
here.
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